doc/Building.md
author Jan Vrany <jan.vrany@fit.cvut.cz>
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 13:31:11 +0100
changeset 178 5d1c3e5fab6b
parent 142 dae35d5b3d72
permissions -rw-r--r--
Initial support for VDB python-based variable objects Due to a limitation of GDB itself, one cannot create variable object for "synthetic" argument/local created by custom frame decorator. Therefore one cannot "dig deeper" and inspect contents of such a variable in case it is a kind of composite - like an object on a heap referring to another objects. This is a problem when a debugee is does not have debug information and / or it's language is not C - such as when debugging JITed code. This (experimental) commit adds a parallel implementation of variable objects done completely in python. This new varobj MI interface is a super-set of GDB's builtin varobj MI interface.

## Building VDB from Sources

### Building GNU Debugger for use with VDB

See [GDB building instructions][3] from [jv:libgdbs][4]

### Building VDB

*Visual / VM Debugger* is a part of [Smalltalk/X jv-branch][1] since version 
8.0.0. To build VDB, just follow instructions how to [build Smalltalk/X jv-branch][2]



[1]: https://swing.fit.cvut.cz/projects/stx-jv
[2]: https://swing.fit.cvut.cz/projects/stx-jv/wiki/Documentation/BuildingStXWithRakefiles
[3]: https://bitbucket.org/janvrany/jv-libgdbs/src/tip/doc/GDB.md
[4]: https://bitbucket.org/janvrany/jv-libgdbs